This completely ignores my main point, though. I don’t care how much effort someone put into something, the problem is that manual art is a depiction of how the artist personally experiences the things they’re portraying, AKA societal attitudes filtered through their own experiences, while AI art is the unmitigated portrayal of what they tell it to state. Both take effort from both machine (tool) and computer, but only AI art reproduces societal attitudes without reflection
Just remembered, this Tumblr has good takes on ai art and argues them better than I do. https://www.tumblr.com/txttletale/737649090420195328/hey-im-not-here-to-say-ai-art-isnt-art-the
She has other good posts about it (tagged ai-art)
This completely ignores my main point, though. I don’t care how much effort someone put into something, the problem is that manual art is a depiction of how the artist personally experiences the things they’re portraying, AKA societal attitudes filtered through their own experiences, while AI art is the unmitigated portrayal of what they tell it to state. Both take effort from both machine (tool) and computer, but only AI art reproduces societal attitudes without reflection